Recently in Nothing Important Category

Okay. It wasn't exactly true to write "nothing but knitting" yesterday. I have to admit that I also played tourist:

The view at night from the Empire State Building:

The thing that always struck this suburban girl whenever she viewed a city from high above is how it seemed to go on forever and ever. I guess that I'm still amazed by that visual, but now I'm starting to recognize where various pieces are and it doesn't seem so enormous. No matter what, though, it's still pretty cool.

I wished the Brooklyn Bridge a happy one-two-five (that's 125th):

And I went to a family wedding. Where I saw (for a brief moment) Kate:

Kate's a busy girl who likes to run around:

And I think that's okay. In fact, I noticed that the only thing that would slow down Kate was the promise of a good meal.

Incidentally, Sven and I rented a car to travel to said wedding. You might know (or have guessed) that we are delightfully car free here in NYC. It's fair to say that I don't miss my car for a second. At first I enjoyed ignoring opposite-side parking rules, the freedom from worrying about my car on the street, and the ability to forget about scheduled maintenance. I can now add to that list the ability to be blissfully unaware of gas prices (yes, yes, higher gas prices mean increased costs elsewhere, but humor me here for a moment). We had to buy gas in Connecticut on Friday. Egads!!! It cost something like $50 to fill up our teeny tank. That would really cut into the yarn budget if I had to do that once a week. A Hummer (I know!) pulled up to the pump across from us. I wanted to stay to see how much the driver spent filling up the tank, but we didn't have time.

Scientists are doing important work on behalf of knitters. I half suspect, though, that a couple of knitters could have told these guys the same thing.

And the Sox are battling it out in the Playoffs. We know which team Kate's rooting for.

Let's go Red Sox!

Not quite. But I am off to my third city in just as many weeks. No I'm not moving again (I don't even want to think about that.) I'm off to Chicago, then Racine, Wisconsin for a vacation. Does anyone know any good yarn stores out that way?

So, I'll see you all in about a week.

Meanwhile, a picture of the cardigan in Astoria Park, with the Triborough Bridge in the background.

Literally.

What should I do with empty yarn tubes?

Sculpture:

Too silly!